Datadog (Day-1) Assignment

vamsi vella — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:36:52 +0000

1) What is Datadog Agent?
Datadog Agent is open-source software that provides data like (metric,event,logs,tags) data of the host on which it runs. Acting as a DogStatsD server, Datadog Agent also aggregates metrics from other processes/integrations or containers on the host.

2) What are list of methods to send data to Datadog?

Methods to send data to datadog is

Collector = Configuring the Datadog Agent for Application
DogStatsD = Adding the Datadog Tracing Library to the code
Datadog_API = Rest API which can used to publish custom log/metric

3)Top 10 commands of Datadog Agent

systemctl start datadog-agent - To start the datadog-agent service
systemctl stop datadog-agent - To stop the datadog-agent service
systemctl restart datadog-agent - To restart datadog-agent post config changes
systemctl status datadog-agent - To check status of the datadog-agent service after starting
datadog-agent configcheck - To check the config changes status
datadog-agent config - To check the configuration values/files
datadog-agent health - To check datadog-agent is working as needed
datadog-agent hostname - Hostname of the datadog agent
datadog-agent version - To check current installed version
datadog-agent status - To check datadog-agent status
datadog-agent --help

4) Top 10 Techniques for troubleshooting Datadog Agent

Hostname and region Detection in datadog.yml config file
API token mismatch issue
Debug Mode
Agent Check Status
Network (NTP) issues
Permission issues
Integrations issues
Firewall issues
Agent Runtime Configuration
Config Yml file space/syntax issues

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Datadog (Day-1) Assignment